If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

Most people end their race here on earth with no products to show for all their time they spent on earth.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

You can't stop progress, but you can help decide what is progress and what isn't.

Now, games have been democratized. Everyone plays games.

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.